Biography

Dr Michael Lynch is an Honorary Fellow in the School History, Politics & International Relations at the University of Leicester. His specialist areas of interest include modern European and Asian history. His previous publications include The People’s Republic of China 1949–76, 2nd Edition (Hodder and Stoughton, 2008), China 1839–1997 (Hodder, 2016) and Mao (Routledge, 2017), among many others. He is a bestselling author on Hodder’s Access to History series as well as an editor on the series as a whole.